Improvement in combined scoops and sieves



'IJNITED STATES PATENT OFE1oE` LOUISA KEHM, OF URBANA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED SCOOIS AND SIEVES.

Specifieation'forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,349, dated July 25, 1876 application iiled .Iuue 2G, 1876. v

To allA whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUISA KEHM, of Urbana, Illinois, have invented certain Improvements in Scoop-Sieves; and I hereby declare the following to be' a full, clear, and exact de scription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part oll this specication, in which- Figure l is a perspective view, with a portion of the side broken away to show the internal construction.

The object of my invention is to produce a sieve that will not be liable to soil the table or other object upon which it may be placed; and it consists in providing the inclosing-eylindcr ofthe sieve with a solid diaphragm, and a side opening below the meshes ot' the sieve, as hereinafter more fully set t'orth and claimed.

In the said drawings, A is a cylinder, provided with a scoop-shaped projection, a, a handle, b, and an opening, c, provided with a lip or apron, d. NVithin this cylinder A, and above the opening c, I place a wire-cloth sieve,

B, which may be 'made removable, if desired.4

I also construct within the cylinder, and flush Wit-h the lower edge of the opening c and apron d, a soliddiaphragm or bottom, E.

The operation of my device is as follows:

When any material is sit'ted through B it falls upon diaphragm E, and is poured out through that may he jarred from the meshes ot' the wireAcloth.

When jellies have been passed through a sieve, it. is a source of' trouble and annoyance to properly dispose ol the sieve ,vithont soiling the table, or whatever object on which the sieve may be placed b :lore being cleaned.

My invention avoids this ditlicuity, as the continued dripping from thc sieve will he caught by the diaphragm or bottonnand the sieve may set down anywhere without danger of' soiling anything. I Y

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 4 As a new article ot' manufacture, a sieve, consisting ofthe cylinder A, provided with the side opening @gauze diaphragm I3, and solid diaphragm E, as described.

VLOUISA KEHM. I'Vitnesses:

Y, E. H. UUsHMAN,

FRED. REIMUND. 

